About Our Sources

The editorial content on Lineage — tradition overviews, historical connections, teacher biographies — is generated with the help of artificial intelligence. We think honesty about that process serves you better than any pretense of traditional authorship.

Each tradition page lists sources: primary texts, academic works, and practitioner writings that likely informed the model's understanding. These are references, not verified citations. We link them so you can read further and judge the material for yourself, not to imply that every claim traces neatly to a specific page and paragraph.

What the source categories mean

Primary texts are the foundational scriptures and writings of a tradition. Academic works are scholarly studies that contextualize history, doctrine, and practice. Practitioner and lineage sources come from teachers and communities within the traditions themselves, offering perspectives that scholarship alone cannot provide.

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If you are a practitioner, scholar, or simply a careful reader who notices something wrong (a mischaracterized teaching, a missing lineage, a broken connection), we genuinely want to hear from you. This project improves through the knowledge of its readers, not in spite of it.

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